Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented and alarming rate. Due to human pressure on natural resources, the resources are depleted at a rate more than nature can replenish them. We have already suffered the consequences. COVID19 pandemic is just one of problems arising from abuse of nature. We need to protect nature and restore the ecosystems in order to bring about balance in our relationship with nature. We have a choice, either to be part of the problem or to be part of the solution. On this international day for biological diversity, let us choose to be part of the solution. Let us protect nature and stop human loss.

Today Help African Animals joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Migratory Birds Day. This year’s theme is sing, fly, soar like a bird. Much as most of us humans have been locked down by the COVID19 pandemic, migratory birds have not. Migratory birds know no border. This is therefore a call to all of us, wherever we are to join hands and protect migratory birds.

Our own members attended the passing out of Marine Officers at the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Marine Training School located at Kalangalo today. The officers will be out on the waters of Uganda to enforce the Fish Act and Rules made under it. We are happy to work with the UPDF to protect fish in Uganda.